Dan Martin

Proud father of 3 wonderful daughters. Bleed Orange and Blue. Conservative entrepreneur.

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

The West spent decades making new refineries harder to build while closing existing capacity. We did not eliminate petroleum demand. We increasingly outsourced the industrial capacity needed to turn crude oil into the fuels modern economies still consume. https://t.co/vMHoOapcpx

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

https://t.co/CjcD4ph82X There is always noise in financial markets.
Earnings surprises. Fed speeches. Oil prices. Employment reports. AI announcements. Political headlines. Every day produces another explanation for why stocks moved twenty points in one direction and then twenty points in the other.

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

@PunchbowlNews

[Take Back District 2 @take2back]

Figures says more federal money makes health care affordable.

When the credits lapsed, the average monthly payment went from $113 to $178.

Nothing happened to the care. Washington just stopped covering part of the bill.

The price was always $178.

https://t.co/1QRlIlQGld

[NetChoice @NetChoice]

“Washington and the states can do right by American workers by keeping the country’s AI engine running, not stalling it over a fear the evidence does not support.” - @RobPWJ 💡

Companies betting the biggest on AI are hiring the most—including a 12% jump in entry-level jobs.

[Take Back District 2 @take2back]

No Democrat filed against him. That part isn't his doing.

But while AL-02's Republicans spend each other down for August 11, Figures banked $662,600 and hasn't had to touch it since spring.

https://t.co/OBn6m8LxYe

[Take Back District 2 @take2back]

They wrote it down. Abolish the Senate. Defund the Department of War. Phase out fossil fuels.
Fort Rucker is in Alabama's 2nd District.
Name one demand in that document Shomari Figures will publicly reject.
https://t.co/e3awYKUpd4

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

New parody on Signal Over Noise — Freaky Friday: New York wishes its data centers away, and the governor spends one day living as the infrastructure she banned. A genie, a body-swap, and a lesson about banning vs. solving. https://t.co/yjRpRlavXC

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

FANTASY FRIDAY (SATIRE)

BREAKING: Thousands fill Manhattan for the "No Kings" rally against King Mamdani's 78-degree decree.

"I didn't move to New York to live inside a terrarium," declared one protester, fanning himself with a utility bill. "If I pay for the electricity, I should be allowed to experience it."

The mayor's office: "Comfort is a privilege. Perspiration builds community."

https://t.co/aiLbW8ZyDY

[Take Back District 2 @take2back]

Alabama's 2nd District is conservative, commonsense, and proud — it deserves a congressman who is too.

Trump carried this district by 14 points. Shomari Figures lines up with the national Democratic agenda instead.

We're here to take District 2 back. 🇺🇸
#AL02 #alpolitics

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

Lee Greenwood endorses Christina Woerner McInnis for Alabama Ag Commissioner. Watch it — and vote Tuesday, June 16. https://t.co/VETCOzPh0K

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

On October 15, 2010, a sitting Federal Reserve Governor told his colleagues, in a closed FOMC conference call, that nobody in the room understood what they were doing.

Three weeks before QE2 launched. Six hundred billion dollars of additional Treasury purchases coming. The institutional consensus locked. And one governor said this:

"I find myself increasingly out of step with the views of the Committee. ... I think the problem is that none of us are all that comfortable with our level of understanding of the dynamics between changes in the balance sheet and resulting changes in economic performance."

The transcript wasn't released for five years. By then, QE2 was history, QE3 had come and gone, and the Fed's balance sheet was on its way past four trillion dollars.

That governor was Kevin Warsh.

This month he walked back into the Eccles Building as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Most coverage will be about the funds rate. Where it goes. When it gets there. What the dot plot says.

That's the headline. It's not the story.

The Chair of the Federal Reserve doesn't primarily set interest rates. The Chair sets the intellectual culture of the institution — which assumptions get rewarded, which questions get asked, which forecasting models get believed when they fail. The funds rate is one vote. The culture is every working group, every supervisory exam, every research priority feeding into the next decade of policy.

The funds rate is downstream. The culture is upstream.

New essay on what Warsh actually inherits — and where to watch for the real change.

https://t.co/xnyq2QW4xg

#Federal Reserve #Monetary Policy #Kevin Warsh #Economic Policy

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

Vote Perry O. Hooper Jr. for Republican State Executive Committee, Place 3, Montgomery County. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. https://t.co/CIKywyf7Ex

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

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[Yellowhammer News @yhn]

Progressive activist group League of Women Voters of Alabama spent Friday lambasting the announcement of Alabama’s redistricting special session as “an embarrassment.”

On Saturday, former State Auditor and PSC candidate Jim Zeigler said he wouldn’t participate in an upcoming debate among candidates for the Alabama Public Service Commission hosted by a group that is “a front for the Democrat Party.”

Read more here: https://t.co/COgdlNw96P

#Alabama #ALPolitics #Redistricting #Elections

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

92% of his money comes from outside Alabama. He lives in Maryland. He votes with the Squad. Alabama deserves better. https://t.co/IHr7OMEgMH

[Rodney Walker @walkerforAL]

On the road! 🚗💨 Great turnout at the Lawrence County GOP meeting! Discussed infrastructure & drug costs. Proud of Trump’s support for #TermLimits—let’s make it happen! Vote for candidates who represent YOU! 🗳️ #ALPolitics #Vote2026

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

Results, Not Applause: Trump Tells Davos the Truth - by Perry O. Hooper Jr. https://t.co/NJta0b09sb

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

The Battle for District 2 - Patriots First Alabama https://t.co/MmruwNeTPi

[Dan Martin @damartin45]

Tariffs as Strategy: The Economic Doctrine the Media Won't Explain - True Trump Policy https://t.co/GPRdSX9yvk